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February 22, 2008

New Evangelicals Video - "Midnight Vignette"

When we gave our gushing preview of Evangelicals great new record and mentioned a childhood diet that surely included Scooby Doo reruns, "Midnight Vignette" was sort of what we had in mind, which sounds just like a cheeky take on the soundtrack to a chase scene for a b-movie horror flick. (As the band's said themselves, there's a dash of Rocky Horror to this show.) Rather awesomely, Josh Jones's sprawling psych-pop crew take those tones and splash them all over the video for "Vignette," which is essentially a drive-in slasher flick in four-minute form. You just need twenty seconds to get the feel for the full clip, but the song is what we're really tripping over.

Guillemots, Evangelicals, it's a good day for over-the-top pop.

The excellent The Evening Descends is out now via the equally excellent Dead Oceans.

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Cool.

Good song.

Posted by: NLP at 02/22/08 2:16 PM  | Reply
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Saw these guys in Columbia, Mo about week ago. They were fantastic!

Posted by: nilsson1941 at 02/22/08 4:53 PM  | Reply
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I agree with nilsson1941. I was also at the show in Columbia last Friday. Evangelicals were really great, especially "Skeleton Man" and "Bellawood".

Posted by: Ira at 02/23/08 12:08 AM  | Reply
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This is a featured vid on youtube right now. The comments are predictably hilarious.

"The chick from Arch Enemy is much better than this singer." says one guy.

Posted by: NLP at 02/23/08 6:05 PM  | Reply
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So far, The Evening Descends is up for my record of the year.

Posted by: Joseph profile link at 06/03/08 8:16 AM  | Reply
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